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The Season of Our Growing Discontent

Circle of Blue

The most destructive hurricanes of the last two decades – Sandy (2012), Harvey (2017), Maria (2017), Ida (2021), Ian (2022), Helene (2024) – arrived on or after Katrina’s initial landfall date of August 25. million acres of rainforest that vanished last year. Katrina remains the most expensive weather disaster in U.S.

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Amazon Deforestation is Down. Here’s Why.

Legal Planet

The World Resources Institute reported that the world lost more primary rainforest in 2022 than in 2021. Q: What do you make of the reduction in deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon and what else should we know? Jason Gray: This year has seen some really sobering news on the tropical deforestation front.

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Environmental activism in Latin America

Our Environment

South America is home to the largest biodiverse rainforests on Earth. This is equivalent to a rainforest the size of the United Kingdom [3]. 3) Birss Moria (2017) Criminalising environmental activism pages 315-322. (4) Written by: Danielle McGuire. 2 pp 105-110. (2) 2) Geraldo B. 110, pages 173-177. (3)

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

Mediterranean Reefs Will Be Destroyed Upon Repsol's Prospecting Published by Oceana | July 21, 2011 Information provided by Repsol Investigaciones Petrolíferas, S.

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Major developments for global climate litigation: the Human Rights Council recognizes the right to a healthy environment and the Committee on the Rights of the Child publishes its decision in an international youth climate case

Law Columbia

Following the reasoning of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR)’ 2017 advisory opinion , the CRC found that countries have extraterritorial responsibilities related to carbon pollution. In Future Generations v.

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Martinique Grigg: Supporting the Environment Through Socially Conscious Strategy

Washington Nature

In 2017, Martinique and her business partner took ownership of Salumi, an iconic Seattle deli. Her can-do attitude stems from the time she led outdoor expeditions and realized that being a leader means “you’re the one who is willing to step in and keep everyone’s spirits up.”

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The End Is Not Near, But If An 'Insect Apocalypse' Ever Happens, How Would We Know?

Science Blogs

The first study to set off alarms was published in 2017 by entomologists in Germany, who reported that over 27 years the biomass of flying insects in their traps had declined by 75%. Another study from the Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research program site in the Puerto Rican rainforest reproduced an insect survey from the 1970s.